Many businesses want a simple way to centralize and search logs. AWS OpenSearch Serverless looks perfect - no cluster management, automatic scaling. We thought the same. Three months later, we migrated away. Here’s why serverless doesn’t always mean cost-effective.
When building production-grade enterprise solutions on AWS, we try to follow all the best practices (let’s call it the 5P approach). It’s great when we can build super simple solutions, but in most cases even a “simple” solution eventually becomes very complex: many services communicating with each other, multiple caching layers, different customer requirements, and so on. ...